Ben D
Staff Software Engineer at Kohl's
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolBen D is a Staff Software Engineer in Birmingham, AL with 14 years of experience building resilient, data-driven systems and tightening feedback loops across development, QA, and operations. He has led engineering teams to productionize ML-enhanced video ingestion and maintained large-scale WebRTC platforms, while earlier roles focused on CI/CD, automation, and performance tuning for transaction-heavy systems. Ben combines hands-on expertise in Java, SQL, DevOps tooling, and automated testing with a strong track record of improving developer workflows and onboarding. Passionate about teaching, he translated twelve years of dance-instruction experience into systematic curriculum and experience redesigns, and he is now applying those coaching and communication skills to developer education and organizational process. Notable strengths include shortening lead times through CI practices and building observability into data-intensive applications so teams can move faster with confidence.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Auburn High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Auburn University
German
Github Skills (16)
dance9
paypal8
android-studio6
wearos6
django6
kotlin-android5
native-android5
java5
python5
realm5
django-cms5
coroutines4
kotlin4
android4
branches3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benjwrdill/resume
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
benjwrdill/dotfiles
May 2012 - Nov 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 16 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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